KABUL, July 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) – A prominent Afghan journalist died of COVID-19 on Sunday, an independent media safety group protecting reporters’ rights, said today.
“Dad Mohammad Onaby, editor-in-chief of (state-run) Islah Daily, passed away of COVID-19 and buried on Sunday,” Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) said in a statement.
His death has brought to seven the number of media workers and reporters to die as a result of COVID-19 disease, according to the statement.
As many as 1,010 people have died of COVID-19, out of more than 34,400 positive cases registered so far in Afghanistan, since the outbreak of the pandemic in Feb.– NNN-AGENCIES
